New Testament and Christian apocrypha /

Bovon, Fran�ois.

New Testament and Christian apocrypha / Fran�ois Bovon ; edited by Glenn E. Snyder. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, 2011. - viii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Originally published as New Testament and Christian Apocrypha : collected studies II. T�bingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"The good" and "the best" in Paul's thinking -- Names and numbers in early Christianity -- The ethics of the first Christians : between memory and oblivion -- Variety and authority of the first Christian ethics -- Missionary practice and transmission of the Gospel in early Christianity -- Christ in the book of Revelation -- John's self-presentation in Rev. 1:9-10 -- Tracing the trajectory of Luke 13:22-30 back to Q : a study in Lukan redaction -- Tradition and redaction in Acts 10:1-11:18 -- Moses in Luke-Acts -- The death of Jesus in Luke-Acts -- Sayings specific to Luke in the Gospel of Thomas -- Fragment Oxyrhynchus 840, fragment of a lost Gospel, witness of an early Christian controversy over purity -- Canonical and apocryphal Acts of the Apostles -- The child and the beast : fighting violence in ancient Christianity -- Women priestesses in the apocryphal Acts of Philip -- Mary Magdalene in the Acts of Philip -- Facing the Scriptures : mimesis and intertextuality in the Acts of Philip -- The reception and use of the Gospel of Luke in the second century -- Paul as document and Paul as monument -- Canonical, rejected, and useful books -- Scripture as promise and as closure.

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Bible.--New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Apocryphal books (New Testament)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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